As a private initiative of Lithuanian scientists and philanthropists Danguolė Butkienė and Viktoras Butkus, it functioned as an art museum without walls for about ten years.

[1][2] Total building floor area: 3100 sq.m., height: 17 m.[3] Architect Daniel Libeskind commented that although it is his smallest project, it is also one of his favorites, and he also noted that he used circular form in it for the first time (spiral staircase in the interior).

[5] The museum hosts numerous exhibitions, film screenings, educational workshops, concerts and other cultural events, which are intended for various age groups.

[7] The construction of the MO Museum, which was funded by Viktoras and Danguolė Butkai, began in the location of the Lietuva Cinema in April 2017.

[12] The collection of the Mo Museum is composed of work by numerous Lithuanian and local modern artists, dated from 1960s and the period of “thaw” to the present day and the culture of independent Lithuania.

It goes on to showcase the counter-social-realist, colorful, expressive and decorative painting of 1970s creators such as Jonas Švažas, Vincas Kisarauskas, Vincentas Gečoir and others.

Artworks of the 1980s follow, with neo-expressionist[check spelling] painting of artists such as Antanas Martinaitis, Algimantas Jonas Kuras, Kostas Dereškevičius and others.

The Mo Museum holds pieces of 1990s’ neo-expressionists[check spelling] Alfonsas Vilpišauskas, Arūnas Vaitkūnas, Jonas Gasiūnas, and others.

Artworks created within the past two decades include works in categories that include expressionist, by Alonas Štelmanas; realistic, by Jovita Aukštikalnytė; neoromantic, by Patricija Jurkšaitytė and Eglė Gineitytė; neo-academicist, by Paulius Juška and Žygimantas Augustinas; and conceptual variations of realism by Eglė Ridikaitė and Agnė Jonkutė.

The collection includes the humanist works of school photographers Antanas Sutkus, Aleksandras Macijauskas, Romualdas Rakauskas, while Alfonsas Budvytis and Vytautas Balčytis are representatives of later generations.

The collection of video art contains documentary works made while using strategies of social studies (Artūras Raila, Robertas Antinis), as well as expressions of individual surrealist reality (Jurga Barilaitė, Evaldas Jansas, Svajonė and Paulius Stanikai).

The collection also contains works made by artists of the young generation (Andrius Zakarauskas, Linas Jusionis, Adomas Danusevičius, Eglė Karpavičiūtė, Monika Furmanavičiūtė, Leonid Alekseiko and others).

More than 200 plates, made by different artists, were installed on the wall of Literatų Street to represent the wide prospect of Lithuanian literature.

[22] Dedicated for management of personnel, Laboratory of Art was implemented in collaboration with a modern biotechnology company “Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics” in 2016.

Participants visited workspaces of the artists, attended creative workshops prepared by art critics, were introduced to the specifics of MO Museum's vaults.